84 years ago America discovered the inevitable consequence of isolationism: an attack on American soil. Pearl Harbor dragged us into a war we never wanted. It was "domestic issues should come first" it was "their problem" until it wasn't. We fed our own delusion so long we ran out of food for it, and then it turned to us and kept eating. While we didn't want to get into WW2, in the long run it was one of the largest economic wins in human history. The boomer generation benefited greatly from being born in the only country left standing with industrial capacity, Europe spent decades paying off loans to us, and the fresh memory of WW2 kept the cold war from becoming hot, leading to another "peace dividend" in the 90s. Today we face these same pressures to withdraw from international affairs. Ukraine? Taiwan? Not our problem. Wars start small, they usually start with a couple small countries, then continue to attract one country, then another, continuing to escalate, until one country with enough power to crush them all enters the arena and tells them to cut it out. There has to be an adult in the room, the laws of power are clear, ancient, and unyielding. That country is America. That country is also China. If we abandon our position, it will only be China. Whatever the consequences and costs of being involved in international affairs is, I assure you that having only China at the helm is worse. There are options between total abandonment of our position and continuing to choose to be the world police, we should explore them. Thank you to those who gave their lives, their families, and their future so we could have a free one. #politics #pearlharbor #china #ukraine #taiwan #ww2

The confusing part about staying at motel 6 is that at any moment you could become part of a gang shootout and you don't even know which gang you're supposed to be fighting for. Like I came here wearing orange, who wants me on their team? What do you mean this city doesn't have a third uptown disciples orange crew? #travel

"don't invest more than you can lose" but anything you don't invest eventually gets lost to inflation. Plan accordingly. #bitcoin

Suggestions for a private group chat nostr app that works on Android and iPhone and is easy enough for regular people to use (no fucking w relay settings etc). #asknostr

"people need to learn better conflict resolution skills". Sure. But I think more people need to learn that conflict is ok and it's ok if it doesn't resolve. "Community" involves long simmering, unsolved conflicts that people look past for the sake of the social group. That's the ability we've lost more than the ability to resolve conflict. I am guilty of this too. It's just gonna be a little uncomfortable forever and that's uncomfortable af. That person who was BIG disrespectful to you? You're gonna see them every day for the rest of your life. Y'know what, on second thought, maybe this whole humans being social animals/building community thing was overrated let's just all go back to watching tiktok, eating processed foods, and popping xannies from the comfort of our own homes without other people in them. Other people are gross

Is there any good way to find lightning nodes with high uptimes and smaller channel minimums? Looking for the $50-$200 range. The lightning network explorers all report uptime and connectivity, but 99% of nodes require massive channels. #asknostr #bitcoin #lightningnetwork

Can somebody send me a test zap? #asknostr

Can somebody send me a test zap? #asknostr

I haven't seen anybody drink a snapple since 2002, there is no way that it isn't a massive money laundering scheme of some kind. I don't know how or why, but I do know for certain.

Entrepreneurship needs to be added to the public school curriculum like yesterday. AI is taking huge parts of the job market offline, we need a legion of entrepreneurs to make new jobs for displaced workers if we don't want to risk massive unrest and societal collapse. Entrepreneurship is a skill that can be taught. We didn't use to teach it because relying on one in every 100 kids to randomly become entrepreneurs was working. The other 99 just got taught how to be obedient workers. That's not going to work over the next 50 years. A single entrepreneur used to need to hire 25 people to run a million dollar company, now they only need three. This means for the same number of jobs, we need significantly more entrepreneurs than we used to. We should also replace the word entrepreneur with something easier to spell. I've been one for like 20 years, I still have to look up the spelling every damned time. Am I an idiot? Probably. But I've created more jobs than 98% of people. And that's the problem.

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